单词 | stack-up |
释义 | stack-upn. The arrangement of objects in a stack or pile; a build-up. spec. in Aeronautics = stack n. 1e. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > regulation and control of flying > [noun] > placing aircraft in landing sequence > aircraft waiting in landing sequence stack-up1945 stack1947 traffic stack1947 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > mass formed by collection of particles > an accumulation > of matter which has been in transit lodgement1739 stack-up1945 1945 F. Walton Airman's Almanac 403 Stack-up, air~planes flying at different altitudes over an airport awaiting signal to land. 1948 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 52 681/2 Once the diversion and ‘stack up’ problem is eliminated the plain jet..can become almost as cheap to operate as propeller-powered aircraft. 1950 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 14 Dec. 1/8 The department has under study a plan for shifting first class surface mail to the air lines in order to avoid a stack-up of such mail. 1970 Sci. Amer. Mar. 86/1 Unsafe weather conditions at air~ports, forcing the stack-up and diversion of aircraft,..take an immense annual toll in inconvenience. 1976 Lebende Sprachen 21 153/2 The failure was caused by a build-up/stack-up of adverse manufacturing tolerances. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1945 |
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